Beware the “The Cultural Civil War” Narrative: You’re Being Played

There is always common ground for those who dare to seek it.
That failed narrative has now been replaced with a new mass hysteria: “a new cultural Civil War is inevitable.” In this narrative, America has succumbed to us-versus-them divisions divided by all-or-nothing ideological bright lines. Remember the “Russians hacked our election!” hysteria–or have you already forgotten? That entire narrative collapsed under a deluge of factual evidence that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) data release was an insider job, and a compelling lack of evidence of any other Russian hacking. Snap out of it, America: you’re being played, just as you were played by the absurd “Russia hacked the election” mania. The core strategy here is the destruction of any common ground: once the delusion that there is no common ground left has been cemented by relentless mainstream and social media hysteria/ propaganda, the populace fragments into echo-chamber fiefdoms of ideological conformity that are easily manipulated by the political-financial power structure.

This post was published at Charles Hugh Smith on MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017.